my 20gal growout for 4red bellied piranhas! :)
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First, you are all being too hard on H3D and if I started posting pictures that offended you, you would be the same. Everyone can have an opinon and neither one is wrong. I don't care either way so don't attack me.
However, what you do to get your fish so wound up to tear apart a fish like that is, IMO, wrong. Pirahnas are NOT, in NO WAY, as vicious as this normally and are ONLY known to act like this in nature after the long dry spell has ended and the rains reconnect the small muddy puddles back together to form the rivers they live in in South America.
You also do not have to feed them live food and you are actually hurting them by feeding them over the long term with other, colorful fish. Your pirahnas, in their natural habitat, eat fish that are all mainly silver (e.g. silver dollars, pacus, monos) and young pirahnas eat more mosquito larvea than anyting else. You are also risking their health A LOT by feeding goldfish since they are just very very apt to be carrying some sort of sickness. Even more so than other feeder fish. You need to have yourself a pretty large operation of buying and quaranteening a bunch of feeder goldfish to even get close to being safe for your fish. The best thing to feed them is to ask a grocery store if they have some fish 'guts' you can buy or peices of fish that are cleaned and good for human consumption.
I got all of this information from a recent documentary on Pirahnas that was on Animal Planet last week and I have on my DVR. Your pirahnas are not even the most aggressive of them all and the ones that are usually more apt to go into these frenzies like this will only take the fins off of a fish rather than kill it most times and are very small in comparison. The pirahna also are a highly predated fish by a myriad of other fish, water bugs, crocs, birds and giant otters, which I thought was interesting. The guy who was doing the documentary was also willing to stand in the water teeming with pirahnas and feed them by hand and not a single one of them would bite him. In fact, it also stated that there has never been a case of pirhanas killing a human even though some people have gotten eaten by them, but were dead before they become lunch.
IMO, and from what I learned in that documentary, you are either not feeding your fish enough or trying not to in order to get some shock value out of a movie like that. I am not being judgemental, but it has to be said that these fish are not toys and will not make you any more of a bada@# than you already are by keeping them.
However, what you do to get your fish so wound up to tear apart a fish like that is, IMO, wrong. Pirahnas are NOT, in NO WAY, as vicious as this normally and are ONLY known to act like this in nature after the long dry spell has ended and the rains reconnect the small muddy puddles back together to form the rivers they live in in South America.
You also do not have to feed them live food and you are actually hurting them by feeding them over the long term with other, colorful fish. Your pirahnas, in their natural habitat, eat fish that are all mainly silver (e.g. silver dollars, pacus, monos) and young pirahnas eat more mosquito larvea than anyting else. You are also risking their health A LOT by feeding goldfish since they are just very very apt to be carrying some sort of sickness. Even more so than other feeder fish. You need to have yourself a pretty large operation of buying and quaranteening a bunch of feeder goldfish to even get close to being safe for your fish. The best thing to feed them is to ask a grocery store if they have some fish 'guts' you can buy or peices of fish that are cleaned and good for human consumption.
I got all of this information from a recent documentary on Pirahnas that was on Animal Planet last week and I have on my DVR. Your pirahnas are not even the most aggressive of them all and the ones that are usually more apt to go into these frenzies like this will only take the fins off of a fish rather than kill it most times and are very small in comparison. The pirahna also are a highly predated fish by a myriad of other fish, water bugs, crocs, birds and giant otters, which I thought was interesting. The guy who was doing the documentary was also willing to stand in the water teeming with pirahnas and feed them by hand and not a single one of them would bite him. In fact, it also stated that there has never been a case of pirhanas killing a human even though some people have gotten eaten by them, but were dead before they become lunch.
IMO, and from what I learned in that documentary, you are either not feeding your fish enough or trying not to in order to get some shock value out of a movie like that. I am not being judgemental, but it has to be said that these fish are not toys and will not make you any more of a bada@# than you already are by keeping them.
I'll ask for everybody's cooperation one final time.
Every hobbyist has their personal preferences and beliefs.
Please respect them.
We are here for exchange of ideas, and mutual appreciation of the hobby. Not to insult one method over another.
Thanks again for your cooperation in maintaining a friendly environment.
Every hobbyist has their personal preferences and beliefs.
Please respect them.
We are here for exchange of ideas, and mutual appreciation of the hobby. Not to insult one method over another.
Thanks again for your cooperation in maintaining a friendly environment.
Getting back to the topic at hand, what kind of plant is that on the left? Oops, maybe it's fake.
rbishop said:Okay folks, lets try to stay on topic here.
The OP posted some pic's he is proud of. If you have a positive comment please post a response, I'm sure they would appreciate it. If you do not care for the presentation, just say nothing at all.
If you have an issue about content, please contact admin/staff.
Thank you all for your cooperation in maintaining a friendly atmosphere!
thank u sir! i did not mean to offend some people on showing "half-corpsed fish"
that did not even enteedr my mind. i apologize if some people got offended and i can totally understand that, but just to be clear, i do not glorify over the death of the fish in fact ive never came across this idea, i post the pic to see that my new rbps are eating. thats it thats all. once again im sorry for the people that got offended over the last pic. im a monster fish keeper and i feed my fishes live fish. We love this stuffs on Mfk but ill think twice now b4 posting threads or showing some pics.
oh yeah, dont go looking over my video on youtube if u guys dont like feeding live stuffs!
and now back to the topic thank u all for saying my tank is nice. appreciate it!
i notice alot of u guys like my left plant eh? i dont know what is it. its fake hehe and i bought it 1$ on the dollar store 
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My $'s on that left plant being a plastic boston fern.
Nice RBPs. Feed tehm well (so they don;t eat ea. other).
Nice RBPs. Feed tehm well (so they don;t eat ea. other).
